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SUNSET CEMAS & RABOW GAY CEMA
On the 26th Febary 1994 an arson attack killed eleven people at the Dream Cy Cema fire, loted at 7 St John Street, Smhfield, EC1. The Metropolan Police would later nfirm that the ‘gay’ pornography cema was liberately targeted after they lnched a murr vtigatn to the fire related aths which broke out the… * gay cinema fire london *
The Metropolan Police would later nfirm that the ‘gay’ pornography cema was liberately targeted after they lnched a murr vtigatn to the fire related aths which broke out the private club jt before 6pm on a Saturday eveng. ‘Dream Cy’ showed straight and gay sex films and occupied the send and third floors St John Street. Wall-to-wall shirtls hotti crowd to this Vxhall mega-club which hosts gay nights (and morngs!
The Dream Cy Cema Club was an adult cema screeng gay & straight porn films separately s 2-screens, which were loted on the send and third floors of the buildg (a fe was loted on the ground floor).
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Sunset Cemas & Rabow Gay Cema. In recent years sce the emergence of Soho as London’s ‘Gay Village’ the basement was nverted to the Rabow Gay Cema, the two origal screens ntued to operate as the Sunset Cemas screeng ‘straight’ adult films.
It opened the mid-1970’s, ially showg straight porn only but later attractg many gay men, as well as transvt and some straight women.
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Downstairs the basement is the cema showg str8 movi (ually the kd of Amerin bbish weighed down wh a 'plot' rather than actn) and upstairs is a gay cema, showg gray, maly poor-qualy rather tame efforts. Most of the gay dience prefers the str8 cema downstairs (I leave you to work out what the attractn might be!
The staff are not welg and not particularly iendly - pecially towards the gay cema upstairs. The Sla also built up a loyal fanbase for other gay trs such as Andy Warhol, Pasoli, Fassbr and Derek Jarman, who loved to watch the dience watchg his films at the Sla and uld often be seen at the All-Night gay movie marathons. On other ocsns, Trash featured a gay versn of Bld Date hosted by (the now Reverend) Richard Col, and Boy Gee sang onstage ("what a drama diva she was!